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09 29 2024 The Wedding at Cana · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the Word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, September
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you guns word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our new Lesson study series through the Gospel of John
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the wedding at Kina.
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  Speaker 2: Some people say Khana the wedding at Cana. Will get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say happy new week to you, and I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: that God has given us the privilege to work at
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  Speaker 2: this time and yeah, earn a living serve people who
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  Speaker 2: need to know God and everything else that we need
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  Speaker 2: to do as we look forward to the coming of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm asking you before we get into everything, to
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  Speaker 2: our online community. I want you to pay special attention
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  Speaker 2: to that seven click on the seven, and I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say welcome to people who are listening to
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  Speaker 2: us on the radio. There are so many stations around
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America, so many stations in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm scrolling through, scrolling through so many stations in well,
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  Speaker 2: one station in Belize, a couple in the Cayman Islands,
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  Speaker 2: one or two in England, France, Guam, Jamaica, Online, Liberia, Malaysia,
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand, and let's see Turks, Grand Turk Island, Uganda,
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  Speaker 2: all over the world literally, and that is not to
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  Speaker 2: mention those who are listening online, those who are listening
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  Speaker 2: on shortwave radio, on satellite, on television. You see where
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  Speaker 2: this is going. So I'm asking you to continue to
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  Speaker 2: pray and watch and watch and pray as Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: on his way very soon, and spread the gospel where
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  Speaker 2: you are spread the gospel. It won't be long. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray and then get under way. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day. Help us to be
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  Speaker 2: receptive to your will, and then do it in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. So the first question
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  Speaker 2: that I need you to consider is are you willing
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  Speaker 2: to allow God to transform you? I need to ask
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  Speaker 2: and answer the same question for myself. Am I willing
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  Speaker 2: for God to transform me? Okay? And so this comes
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  Speaker 2: from the Bible Book of John, Bible Book of John,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two and beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: now on the third day there was a wedding at
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  Speaker 2: Cana in Galilee. Now on the third day that phrase,
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  Speaker 2: if I were you, I would look that up. What
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  Speaker 2: was whatever happens in the Bible on the third day.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to research and see how many times
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  Speaker 2: the third day is referenced, and see what kinds of
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  Speaker 2: things happened on the third day in scripture. It will
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  Speaker 2: be a fascinating study. So on the third day there
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  Speaker 2: was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus, Jesus's mother
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  Speaker 2: was there, and Jesus and his disciples were also invited
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  Speaker 2: to the wedding. When the wine ran out, Jesus's mother
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  Speaker 2: said to him, they have no wine left, so she's
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  Speaker 2: making a statement. Okay, they have no wine left. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: replied in a way that I would have likely replied, woman,
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  Speaker 2: why are you saying this to me? My time is
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  Speaker 2: not yet come. His mother told the servants. It's almost
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  Speaker 2: like she ignored him. It feels like she ignored him.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean ignored in a negative way. She
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  Speaker 2: was just like, m hmm, all right. So whatever Jesus
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  Speaker 2: tells you to do, this is what she's saying to
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  Speaker 2: the servants. Whatever he tells you to do, do it.
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  Speaker 2: Verse six. Now there were six stone water jars. Why six?
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  Speaker 2: Therefore Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus told the servants. You see, he said, why are
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  Speaker 2: you telling me this? My time is not yet come.
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  Speaker 2: She says, do whatever he says, and then he starts
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  Speaker 2: to tell the servants something to do. It's interesting watching
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  Speaker 2: Jesus in his powers as the Son of God or
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  Speaker 2: God the son part of me, and to see him
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  Speaker 2: functioning in the human element as well. It's very interesting
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  Speaker 2: to me. So fill the water jars. So they filled
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  Speaker 2: them up to the brim, and he told them, now
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  Speaker 2: draw some out and take it to the master of
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  Speaker 2: the banquet. Some what Jesus, Draw some out and then
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  Speaker 2: take it to the master of the banquet. What Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: What did they put into the jar? The jars, the
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  Speaker 2: water jars. They put in water, twenty or thirty gallons
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  Speaker 2: of water in six water jars. Jesus says, draw some
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  Speaker 2: out and then give it to the master of the banquet.
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  Speaker 2: What is he going to draw? What are they going
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  Speaker 2: to draw out and give to the master? Well they
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  Speaker 2: did it and verse nine. So when the master of
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  Speaker 2: the banquet tasted the water, wait a minute, that had
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  Speaker 2: been what transformed. The Bible says that the water had
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  Speaker 2: been turned into way and did not know where it
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  Speaker 2: came from, because he didn't buy it. He didn't bring
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  Speaker 2: it there. He knew that that I mean, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: what though the servants who had drawn the water new
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  Speaker 2: The master of the banquet called the bridegroom and said
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  Speaker 2: to him, everyone serves the good wine first, then the
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  Speaker 2: cheaper wine after the guests are drunk. So neither the
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  Speaker 2: master knows where it's coming from neither the bridegroom knows
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  Speaker 2: where it's coming from. The servants did why because they
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  Speaker 2: know who Jesus is. You have kept the good wine
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  Speaker 2: until now. Of course, this wine is not fermented. It's
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  Speaker 2: not to get nobody drunk. I wish I had the
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  Speaker 2: time to deal with that in detail. But I just
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  Speaker 2: need to be clear that Jesus is not creating wine
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  Speaker 2: that even has the possibility of getting anybody inebriated. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. Verse eleven. Jesus did this
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  Speaker 2: as the first of his signs in Cana of Galilee.
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  Speaker 2: He revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean by he revealed his glory? John Well,
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  Speaker 2: the miracle revealed the glory. Can I say that one
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  Speaker 2: more time? The miracle revealed the glory. So Jesus transformed
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  Speaker 2: the good. And here in Jamaica, land we love. We
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  Speaker 2: say that water is life. I am obsessed by pottable
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  Speaker 2: drinking water, and I love to see bodies of water
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  Speaker 2: that are beautiful and somewhere you can maybe swim or
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  Speaker 2: take a dip or bathe even right, And so Jesus
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  Speaker 2: takes the ordinary, He transforms the good or the ordinary
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  Speaker 2: into the great or extraordinary. You see, the people could
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  Speaker 2: have been sustained by water. Jesus is the water of life, right,
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  Speaker 2: he is the actual water of life. But the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that when Jesus was was stabbed in his side,
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  Speaker 2: as he was about to give his life for us,
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  Speaker 2: water and blood flowed freely from him. I heard there
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  Speaker 2: is a song that says there is a fountain filled
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  Speaker 2: with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath
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  Speaker 2: that flood lose all their guilty stains. And so now
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  Speaker 2: we see where God is transforming the water into the
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  Speaker 2: symbol of his blood, so that the people who are
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  Speaker 2: experiencing him miraculously can be transformed. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus revealed his glory to his disciples and they believed him. So,
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  Speaker 2: so why did he do this miracle so that people
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  Speaker 2: would believe? Are you willing to do whatever God tells
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  Speaker 2: you to do so that you can be transformed from
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  Speaker 2: good to great? And then that people may believe in him.
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  Speaker 2: Not believe in me because I have a large social
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  Speaker 2: media or YouTube following. Not believe in me because I
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  Speaker 2: put some filter over my face. In TikTok or some
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  Speaker 2: other platform, so people will get the wrong impression of
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  Speaker 2: who I actually am. So I can I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: generate billions and millions of dollars in income so that
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  Speaker 2: I can continue to be like a quote influencer or
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  Speaker 2: content creator. No disrespect to people who do that, but
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  Speaker 2: the point is that sometimes human beings are satisfied with
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  Speaker 2: good and they draw people to themselves for good. What
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did in this moment was to transform good to
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  Speaker 2: great so that people can believe. Allow Jesus to transform you,
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  Speaker 2: and then people will believe in him. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,